Band 8b Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Kingswood Civic Centre

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Psychological Therapies Service (PTS) in South Glos. The experienced candidate will support the overall leadership of the service and provide specialist expertise in psychosis and bipolar difficulties. The post holder will support the development of practitioners offering psychological interventions for psychosis and bipolar difficulties by providing clinical supervision, training, and service development oversight within the South Glos Locality. The role requires that the post holder works on Tuesdays, and Fridays to meet the multifaceted needs of the service.

South Glos Psychological Therapies Service is a well-respected team within the locality and the wider trust. The service comprises multidisciplinary staff members, including Psychologists, Art Therapists, OTs, Social Workers, Nurses and Psychiatrists. The service places emphasis on the provision of evidence-based therapies (CBT, DBT, MBT, psychodynamic therapies, family therapy, EMDR, music and art therapy) aimed at meeting the diverse needs of our service users, families, and communities. As a service, the we committed to addressing issues of structural inequalities that often create barriers to the provision of equitable care for the service user groups in the locality.

• The role includes carrying out supervision, teaching, training, and consultation to professionals within the service as well as to other community teams interfacing with PTS.
• In conjunction with senior service staff, maintain the highest standards of care delivery to service users, carers, and communities, as well as ensuring the achievement of service function and metrics.
• Carry out managerial tasks, including management supervision and attending strategic meetings to represent the service.
• You will provide highly specialist psychological supervision to experienced staff working in teams providing psychosis and bipolar specialist services within the locality and the PTS.
• As an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, you will be involved in team formulation, team case discussions, and consultation to other team members around the delivery of psychological interventions.

See Detailed Job description for more information.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

• To offer an entirely autonomous highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and treatment service through the psychology service.
• To support the full implementation of the care programme approach in the multidisciplinary team or equivalent where appropriate.
• To provide supervision and consultancy to service/LDU staff with regard to problem assessment and formulation, and therapy interventions.
• To participate in clinical supervision and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the psychology service.

Please refer the Job description for details